Pregnant and Rejected by My Alpha Mate

Chapter 56

Bastien‘s POV

“You were about to mark me!”

I stumble backward, dazed as Selene’s words pierce through the fog of lust. She was right, I was about to mark her.

My instincts had completely taken over, Axel was urging me to mark her as he had a thousand times before, but my old self restraint is long gone. I thought my mate was dead for three years, kissing her again was too much too resist. If I mark her, make that searing, claiming bite that will forever tie her to me and announce to the world that she belongs to me, she’d never be able to run again.

Even now, knowing how wrong it would be to mark her without her consent, I have to admit the idea is tempting. I watch my mate obsessively, taking in every facet of her expression and demeanor. She’s so beautiful with her wolf alight in her eyes, a wolf that still seeks mine despite Selene’s objections.

I cannot hear the call myself, but Axel certainly can, She’s calling me, He insists, she needs the mark just as much as we do. She’s in pain without it.

I study Selene carefully, reading anger and longing in her stunning features much more strongly than any fear or rejection. I know Axel is right just as certainly as I know the human part of Selene has no intention of giving me permission to mark her. So who should get to decide, the woman, or her wolf?

Icock my head to the side, the scent of Selene’s arousal still heavy in the air. “Tell me not to.” I order huskily.

“What?” Selene falters, taking a step back despite the fact that I haven’t moved an inch.

“If you don’t want me to mark you,” I instruct slowly, “Tell me not to tell your wolf to stop begging mine for the mark.”

She isn’t!”

some of my pain and rage over her

head unconvincingly, then breaks, “You’re doing this! Selene accuses, looking like she might be on the verge of tears. “Tell your

just as badly as you do. Axel rumbles. This is one of those times that having a wolf is downright inconvenient. He’s ruled by instinct, and instinct overpowers logic ten to one. Still, I can’t help but feel uncertain when her

overwhelmed with feelings she’s beside herself. Every wave of agitated energy rolling off her calls to me for comforting, and

to the slumbering pup on the couch, I make my decision. Scooping up Lila and carrying her to the first bedroom I can find, I tuck her into the thick covers and drop a string of kisses on her sweet-smelling head, feeling a rush of warmth when

first hundred times. I remind

appearing as if she’d had to exert all her effort not to follow me. She’s wringing her hands, but when I

say again, “Make me believe it, Selene, and

more difficult than it had been when she believed I’d forsaken her. “Why

her like I did the very first time we ever came together, the day she’d accused me of not being attracted her because I’d overestimated the amount of

her wolf was not entirely gone then; she‘d always reacted

does not protest, I take her hand and lead her into the bathroom, closing the door behind us. I turn on the shower tap, twisting with more strength than was necessary but unable to hold back. The steady pound of cascading water fills the room, and I listen for a moment, deciding that the distance and the noise should provide sufficient buffers

mate, I pull her body into mine, “Last chance, baby.” I tell her,

the surface. Emotion clouds her

Selene’s POV

Bastien’s massive hands. A rumble of pure male satisfaction reverberates through the shower stall as he sinks his fingers between my thighs and meets the evidence of my desire. ‘Tell

right as the

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